Leszek

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by Leszek 11y ago
It is, but that one is actually the reference to Luke Skywalker's name in some of the earlier drafts. See, for example: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Adventures_of_the_Starkiller,...
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by Leszek 11y ago
Have you ever read through the entirety of GPLv3? It's pretty damn long: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
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by Leszek 11y ago
I've tried an Oculus Rift (DK1 only though), so here you go: how is it different from a video game, it's obvious it's fake. Genuinely though, I found it a far less engaging, far less immersive experience than a normal 2D scr
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by Leszek 11y ago
> and the concertina is a popular instrument in South Africa amongst the ancestors of the people who are usually responsible for these waves I'm not sure what you're trying to imply there, but it seems a bit racist? Or am I jus
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by Leszek 11y ago
There's a big difference between "it's really cold out here" and "I literally can't breathe the air". Also, making the best of a horrible environment could make it less horrible, but doesn't mean it w
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by Leszek 11y ago
At least "reinvented" acknowledges that it was previously invented, Wolfram tends to imply that his is the first system to do the things he describes.
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by Leszek 11y ago
Do you consider this a C++ language bug that you happen to be able to exploit? Or a necessary result of being able to combine several correctly behaving features?
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by Leszek 11y ago
I was recently at the edge of the Tenderloin, in Union Square, when out of nowhere when a man walked up behind me, drunk or high or crazy (or some combination of the above), hands covered in blood, and a trail of blood behind him. Before I
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by Leszek 11y ago
You'd be surprised how sensitive we are to latency on input. Microsoft themselves did studies on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
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by Leszek 11y ago
Out of curiosity, why not?
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by Leszek 12y ago
Because `make all install` would first build, then install, while `make install` would just do the installation, regardless of build state.
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by Leszek 12y ago
I honestly thought this was satire until I got to the website link at the end. From the initial "design" sketch to the use race-to-the-bottom design and coding websites, I was sure this was a parody of startups racing to sell a no
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by Leszek 12y ago
Relevant counterargument: http://xkcd.com/1053/
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by Leszek 12y ago
Do you have links for any of these released systems?
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by Leszek 12y ago
Well no, for std::vector<int> t = {0, 1}; t[0] calls operator[], which returns an int&. This is precisely an lvalue reference, which is kind of like a memory address, but int& is a type in its own right. Calling it a
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by Leszek 12y ago
In which case, why bother with user passwords at all?
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by Leszek 12y ago
Sardinian is considered to be closer to Latin than Romanian, and arguably Italian and Spanish are closer to Latin too. According to a book that I haven't read[1], but is cited by Wikipedia[2], "A 1949 study by Italian-American lin
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by Leszek 12y ago
I don't get it either. The author is adding a common dependency to two independent series makes them correlated, which to me seems trivially true. He then goes on to say that this form of correlation is uninteresting, because we'r
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by Leszek 12y ago
Well, high DPI support isn't something to rave about on Windows, although that may be for similar reasons (WinForms vs WPF vs whatever)
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by Leszek 12y ago
Though if you open a book, you actually have a landscape view of two pages, side-by-side.
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by Leszek 12y ago
I can understand the frustration of losing a couple of days of work, but wow, that thread does not show Zed Shaw in a good light. This approach of "there was a bug so now I'm throwing all my toys out of the pram" isn't p
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by Leszek 12y ago
Granted, but I was replying to a post stating that "it" is not better in practice, where "it" is using 0 base, mod 7 arithmetic. Anyway, yes, you've shown correctly that mod 7 arithmetic is useful, proving half the
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by Leszek 12y ago
Er, yes, I believe that's the point the grandparent was making (and the parent was disagreeing with)
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by Leszek 12y ago
> There is really virtually no cognitive load required to hear "major tenth" and realize that it's a major 3rd plus an octave. Maybe not for you, but it certainly took me a moment to convince myself that that is true.
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by Leszek 12y ago
What I didn't understand about these pings is wouldn't their wavelength be massively lengthened by the time dilation? How did they even receive Miller's signal if it was redshifted ~60000 times?
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by Leszek 12y ago
You're confusing compile-time reflection (what is needed for moc) with runtime reflection (which affects binary size and execution time).
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by Leszek 12y ago
I suppose this is the particle physics equivalent of 'discovering' heavier and heavier elements in the periodic table -- good evidence towards existing theory, but effectively these are artificial constructions that exist only bri
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by Leszek 12y ago
Lying about broken links to get your own referral ID in there? That's low.
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by Leszek 12y ago
"No reason to dumb more capable platforms down to the lowest common denominator."
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by Leszek 12y ago
Oh. I stand corrected, should have researched that before commenting.

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